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Originally Posted by jfman
While true - they aren't genuinely competing with Sky or Virgin though at those price points - they're competing against the increasing number of sub-£10 a month streaming services.
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Arguably they’re providing a service to the very viewers who have always resisted multi-channel TV because they never understood what was so intrinsically wonderful about having access to 200 channels when they never intended even to glimpse at 90% of them.
I’m in this category - back in the day I had NTL mostly for the broadband but also because our house never had a terrestrial aerial and it was in the days when it was the easiest way to get access to all the BBC’s digital output; I then had sky because we moved to an area with very poor terrestrial signal and subscribing to a sky dish was the only effective way of getting any tv at all (pre-Freesat). We cancelled our tv subscriptions years ago and these days have Prime Video (though initially that was for Prime parcel delivery benefits rather than tv) and Netflix, because for a household with kids of various ages there is a far higher concentration of watchable programming on that platform. We get far more with two streaming subscriptions than we ever did out of either a Sky or NTL subscription, and at a far lower price.